Stuff

• We're told they plan to close the Israel Museum for two years for renovations. We cannot find out what collections will be accessible during that time.
• This museum is a 20-minute walk from the apartment. It is on the 9, 17, 17alef, 24, and 24alef bus lines.
• The archaeology section starts with things made longest ago. An archaeologist complains that organizing by chronology keeps visitors from nderstnding the development of pottery or tools, but I like seeing how much "stuff" people accumulated 5000, 10,000, 15,000 years ago and more.
• How much decorative stuff. As soon as people started making clay pots, it seems they decorated them. And, as far as I know, no one has labeled them "cultic objects."
• It's not a museum that says much about how people lived before they could leave us messages in writing. But we can guess that tens of thousands of years ago, they already liked "stuff."

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox